InDesign Secrets
Adobe InDesign tips, techniques and insider info from Anne-Marie Concepcion and David Blatner.

Announcements; Hyperlinks; Text Variables; One-Button Mice; Obscurity of the Week: File Info

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-051.mp3 (16.2 MB, 34:02 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

  • Announcements: "InCopy CS/InDesign CS3 Integration" released (AM's video tutorial title for lynda.com); our InDesign CS3 Keyboard Shortcuts poster is on press this week
  • Hyperlinks: Creating, Deleting, Swearing at, Modifying, etc.
  • All about Text Variables, a new feature in CS3
  • Hot Button Post of the Week: AM's rant about One-Button Mice
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: File Info

Links mentioned in the podcast: InCopy CS3/InDesign CS3 Integration video training (link leads to post with details) Our post about fixing hyperlinks from Word documents

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Direct download: InDesignSecrets-051.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:14pm EDT

We're 50!; Quizzler Winner (OS Color Picker); News; Unembeddable fonts; Printing Link Info; Obscurity of the Week: Crop Amount

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Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-050.mp3 (13.8 MB, 29:01 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

  • We're 50!
  • Quizzler Winner — Where's the System Color Picker?
  • News: Free CS3 Tryouts and manuals, Tim Cole's InDesign blog, Upcoming conferences
  • Dealing with "protected" fonts (unembeddable in a PDF)
  • Hot Button Post of the Week: Printing a List of Links
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Crop Amount

Links mentioned in the podcast: InDesign CS3 tryout and documentation from Adobe Tim Cole's InDesign BackChannel blog The InDesign Conference, New York City, NY, June 4–8, 2007. Enter coupon code ISDISBC07 for $100 off the registration fee. Melbourne, Australia InDesign conference, Tokyo InDesign conference (link to come), Chicago CS3 Summit Letterheadfonts.com and the Typophile.com thread about it Download Martin Fischer's LinkExport.jsx script (zipped file)

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Direct download: InDesignSecrets-050.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:27am EDT

News; Threading and Unthreading; Transparency and Spot Colors; PDF/X-4; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Use Inline Input for Non-Latin Text

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Listen in your browser:
InDesignSecrets-049.mp3
(13.1 MB, 27:53 minutes)
(the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon)

  • News: Upcoming InDesign Conference in NY, David's ID CS3 Essentials videos
  • Threading and unthreading text frames — tips and scripts
  • Hot Button Post of the Week: Spot Colors and Flattening in CS3 (and, related, PDF/X-4)
  • The Return of the Quizzler!
  • Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Use Inline Input for Non-Latin Text

Links mentioned in the podcast:
The InDesign Conference, New York City, NY, June 4–8, 2007. Enter coupon code ISDISBC07 for $100 off the registration fee.
David's ID CS3 Essentials on lynda.com (link leads to free 7-day trial)
InDesign CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts poster
SplitStory.jsx script: Post with download info, Post about installing
Aextra Software's CleverTextLink plug-in for CS/CS2, $39

Quizzler instructions: If you have an answer to this episode's Quizzler, don't post it here! E-mail it to info@indesignsecrets.com with "Quizzler" in the Subject. One winner will be chosen randomly from all the correct answers received by midnight, May 15, 2007. The winner will be mailed our beautiful InDesign CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts poster. Remember, don't post your answer here! You'll ruin it for everyone!
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Direct download: InDesignSecrets-049.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:58am EDT